20853_Editing_expositions_Years_2_and_3

Fish for classroom pets
Read the exposition.
Editing skills
mrs hunter girls and boys I believe that we must chose
fish as our classe pets
fish are beautiful and very relaxing to watch there
silent and they won’t stop us for hearing mrs hunter
or eech other
fish are easy to look after we wood only need to clean
their tank every few weaks and to remember to feed
them once a day the weekends woodn’t be a problem
they could stay in the classroom and we could by some
off that slow release fish food
another good argument is cost i know wear we can
borrow a tank and a pump we’d only need to by the
fish and a little bit of fish food they do’nt eat much
pleese support me by voting FISH 1 in our class pet ballot
1 Punctuation
(a) The exposition needs 12 capital letters
for sentence beginnings, 3 more for
proper nouns and 12 full stops.
(b) Add 2 commas in the first line.
(b) (i) Underline 3 contractions.
(ii) List the contractions with the two
words they are made from.
contraction word word
2 Spelling
(a) Find the misspelt word in each line
and write it correctly at the end of the
line.
3 Grammar
Expositions are usually written in the
present tense.
(a) Write any 2 present tense verbs from
the text.
4 Vocabulary
(a) Circle 2 compound words.
(b) Write a compound word using:
(i) room
(ii) side
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